Hendon sighed, and muttered to himself, "Poor ruined mind—still busy with its pathetic dream."

亨顿叹了口气，自言自语道：“可怜的被催毁的心灵——还在忙着做它那可悲的梦。”

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Human nature is the most pathetic: we always dream of the horizon of a wonderful rose garden, not to enjoy today in our window open rose.

人性最可怜的就是：我们总是梦想著天边的一座奇妙的玫瑰园，而不去欣赏今天就开在我们窗口的玫瑰。

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The dream team is off to a pathetic 2-4 start, as a result.

FORBES: Connect

We get a pair of teen-agers who dream of becoming sadistic big shots, although the camera catches something instantly pathetic in their delirium. (Watch them standing on a lonely beach in their underpants, firing stolen guns at nothing at all.) We get a kid who carries drugs for the Camorra, the Neapolitan Mafia, the innocence seeping from him with every favor.

NEWYORKER: Gomorrah